If you habituate Google ’s product , there ’s a good chance the company already has a copy of your credit circuit board details stored somewhere — in your Chrome web web browser ’s autofill mount , gathering dust in a Google Wallet , or inside Android Pay . But soon , “ over the amount weeks , ” Google says it will meld the various ways it gobbles up this data under a new umbrella ring Google Pay .
The rebrand is coming a little late in the game . Google has research various slipway of enabling digital payment since 2011 , when it first released Google Wallet . Then in 2015 , Googlecame out with Android Pay , with support from three major US carrier wave . But in 2017 , Google ’s avail trailed seriously behind its rival — Samsung Pay and Apple Pay , according toJuniper Researchand payment industry sitePYMNTs .
Google says it ’s worked for a year to “ make these [ payments ] feel dim-witted , safer , and more consistent , ” but for now the only variety we can see is a novel logotype , which expect like this :
Google already employed a interchangeable logo and name for “ compensate with Google , ” its very like - voice on-line checkout service , which issue forth out in October .
Google boasted on its blog that Google Pay is support by a handful of services today , includingAirbnb and Fandango .
We ’ve reached out to Google to incur out if it ’s completely retiring the Google Wallet and Android Pay names globally .
Update January 8th , 1:56 PM : A person conversant with the matter at Google tell Gizmodo that the Android Pay and Google Wallet product are n’t undergoing any major feature change , but will now operate under the Google Pay name . In store , the Google Pay brand will replace Android Pay in the month ahead . And the Chrome Autofill setting will just be send for Google Pay .
Update February 20th : TheGoogle Payrollout is occur now . So long , Google Wallet and Android Pay .
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